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davids
05-16-2007, 11:33 AM
Was watching Sho-gun thru netflix [sure beats buying] and realized all those mini Series [some that were great] are no longer being made....How come?
hoffmandu
05-16-2007, 12:11 PM
Well, Stephem King still pumps em out from time to time. Nothing as drawn out as SHogun.
BoosterBronze
05-16-2007, 12:55 PM
I think that style of storytelling has been kind of taken by the HBO style 13 episode season strucutre for really good dramas.
Jmacq1
05-16-2007, 03:26 PM
Mini-Series still pop up on cable networks from time-to-time, too. Sci-Fi usually does at least one "big/semi-big" one per year. Though many of them are failed pilots for ongoing series.
StoneGold
05-16-2007, 03:52 PM
Just gonna guess they got crappy ratings?
Jmacq1
05-17-2007, 05:59 AM
Some of them did pretty well for Cable TV. "Battlestar Galactica" started as a mini-series and did well enough to get an ongoing series. "Dune" and "Children of Dune" were also fairly successful, IIRC (successful enought that they actually considered trying to spin it into a series somehow, which probably would have been a baaaaad idea). Not too sure about the other ones they've aired, though. I know "Riverworld" didn't exactly take off. Nor did "Earthsea" but that may have been because they were crappy adaptation. The only other one I can think of at the moment is "the Triangle" which was just meant to be a one-shot anyway.
marshal99
05-17-2007, 10:46 AM
Whatever happened to those steven spielberg presents epic mini series ? Band of Brothers followed by Taken which were pretty good , then it stopped.
ponset
05-18-2007, 01:38 AM
Val Kilmer is starring in a mini-series, "Commache Moon".
Based on the "Lonesome Dove" Characters.
Suppose to come out next fall on CBS.
StoneGold
05-18-2007, 02:15 AM
Whatever happened to those steven spielberg presents epic mini series ? Band of Brothers followed by Taken which were pretty good , then it stopped.

Hanks, and I believe Spielberg as well, are doing a sequel to Band of Brothers.
Jmacq1
05-18-2007, 06:08 AM
Hanks, and I believe Spielberg as well, are doing a sequel to Band of Brothers.

Not a sequel per se, but a companion piece showing the other theater of the war. It was greenlit by HBO a couple or three weeks ago, IIRC.

It's called "The Pacific."